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[LoSboccacc]

addendum: I've noticed you're using shielded ports on one of the vessels.

I had some trouble when using shielded ports on both while I can dock with minimal effort two normal ports or a normal port and a shielded one.

[Kanil]

I didn't get lined up enough to even have issues with shielded ports. I'm pleased to have gotten as close as I did, but I'll have to rethink it a bit. Still, I liked the screenshot so I wanted to share.

Edit: Just tried again and managed to get it docked. Yaaaaaaaay! ^_^

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It's not quite aligned, but it'll work for now. Important lessons learned about how to better design my station.

The station is just a stack of crew quarters and fuel tanks, but with a decorative shroud. It serves no purpose beyond making the station not look like a orbital soup can. The hole in the midsection is to let kerbals EVA in and out of the interior quarters.

The spaceplane is a SSTO design with a hideous amount of clipping that the game surprisingly doesn't complain about. Eventually I'll sit it on something and fly it to Laythe.

[Aseaheru]

beautiful.

now you must add 700 solar panels!

[Skyrunner]

How you make so amazing space planes is awesome D:

[LoSboccacc]

I've entered duna in the wrong orbit (I am flat, but I turn counterclockwise instead of the other way around)

how do I get my lander orbiting the other way? I tried parking into an ike orbit but I can make any maneuver that ends with me spinning clockwise on duna.

[Mini]

There are two ways you can do that,the first is to simply burn at what your current retrograde is until you're orbiting the other direction, the second is to loop around the moon there and come out orbiting the other direction. I have no idea which one is more efficient.

[Thendash]

Or you could face normal and spin the orbit around. I don't think it really matters which way is most efficient since it's going to take a lot of delta v to pull off any of the ways. Is there a reason you need to be going clockwise?

[LoSboccacc]

both tankers are orbiting duna the other way 

I planned the approach for the right side but it glitched on soi change and entered counterclockwise.

edi: so I managed it jumping off of ike at the right angel; it costed me about 350 in dV

[Mini]

Or you could face normal and spin the orbit around. I don't think it really matters which way is most efficient since it's going to take a lot of delta v to pull off any of the ways. Is there a reason you need to be going clockwise?

That takes twice as much delta-v as just burning retrograde, since you're adding your speed again towards the pole you choose, twice your velocity retrograde from where you were headed, and again towards the other pole. It does mean that you don't lose altitude during the maneuver, but getting that back would be a tiny amount of delta-v it's not worth it unless you're going to go inside the atmosphere.

[Techhead]

If you're worried about losing altitude, a better solution would to turn away from the planet as you lose speed, and back towards prograde when you regain it.

[Pyre]

I've entered duna in the wrong orbit (I am flat, but I turn counterclockwise instead of the other way around)

how do I get my lander orbiting the other way? I tried parking into an ike orbit but I can make any maneuver that ends with me spinning clockwise on duna.

Try raising your Ap up to a few million meters, then flip your orbit around. You will be going slower, so less Dv required.

[LoSboccacc]

uhm, now another problem: any way to refuel a landed craft? my lander does have a docking port on top, but landing a tanker on its head sounds... risky, at least.

[andrea]

another possibility would be designing a rover to resupply it ( although obviously a side mounted port works best for that.)
of course, then you might as well add an extra tank.

if you must recover a stranded craft, and can't achieve a long legged lander, you could try several small refuelling crafts, that will travel docked to each other, then once in orbit will separate, and in turn will deorbit and land on top of your craft, with less risk of excessive damage due to little mass. of course, anything less than perfect control and your kerbals will be stranded forever. but at least alive.

[Nelia Hawk]

http://de.twitch.tv/kerbalsp

from right now for around 1h the devs will talk about 0.19 and 0.20 updates and whats planed the next months...
(ended by now)


seems to be happening every monday. so next will come up sometime at the 14th probably.

[ank]

clearly the most efficient method is slingshotting around a moon.
Remember to enter the moon SOI from behind the moon, or you'll be slingshottet away from Duna.

The other alternative is burning something like 3000 Delta-v.

Or you could meet half-way in a polar orbit.